Rovingrframe



No. 608,758. Patented Aug. 9, I898.

J. T. CUNNE EN.

ROVING FRAME.

(Application filed May 15, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 608,758, dated August 9, 1898. Application filed May 15 1897. Serial No. 636,611. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN T. OUNNEEN, of.

Fall River, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Speeders or Roving- Frames, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains or with which it is most nearly connected to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to that class of textile machines commonly known as speeders, by which the sliver undergoes a degree of drawing or attenuation and is brought to the state of roving, which roving is usually wound upon a bobbin supported by a spindle through the medium of a flier directly connected with and driven by the spindle, the bobbin carrying means being necessarily driven by means independent of the spindledriving means.

Heretofore in the construction and operation of speeders it has been common to reciprocate vertically the immediate driving means of the bobbin-carrier with the latter and the bobbin itself, the reciprocation of the bobbin being necessary to properly wind the roving upon the bobbin. This form and mode of op eration have requirednot only a great amount of power, but has resulted in much loss of time and occasioned a great deal of expense consequent upon breakages, waste,-and other causes.

It is the object of my present improvements to provide a more efficient and desirable construction than has heretofore been employed whereby the bobbin-driving means may be sustained in fixed supports the same as the spindle-driving means, and the bobbin and its vertically-supporting means may alone be reciprocated.

To these ends the invention consists of a speeder embodying in its construction spindle and bobbin driving means and their fixed supports, combined With the spindle and the bobbin-holder rotated by the bobbin-driving means, the reciprocatory bolster rail and bolster secured thereto, a collar adapted to rest upon the bolster to be engaged by the bobbin-holder and rotated by it and in turn to engage the base of the bobbin and to rotate it, all as I will proceed to describe in detail hereinafter and then point out with particularity in the claims.

. Reference-is to be had to the annexed draw ings, andto the letters and figures marked thereon, forming a part of this specification, the same letters and figures designating the same parts or features, as the case may be, wherever they occur.

Of the drawings, Figure 1 is a front View, partially in section, of so much of the end of a speeeder or roving-machine as it is necessary to show in order to explain my invention. Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic end View of the gearing which communicates motion to the spindle and bobbin shafts from the main shaft. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the bobbinholding sleeve on an enlarged scale. Fig. 4 is a plan View, 011 an enlarged scale, of the collar, which rests upon the bolster and which engages the bobbin-holding sleeve and the base of the bobbin, so that the collar and bobbin may be rotated in unison with the sleeve. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the top of the bobbin-holding sleeve representedin'Fig. i

In the drawings, a designates the frame of the machine.

I) is the main shaft.

c is the spindle-shaft, and (Z is the spindle.

e is the bobbin-shaft, and f is the bobbin holding and rotating sleeve which surrounds the spindle.

g is the bolster-rail, to Whichthe bolster h is secured and through which the spindle and bobbin holding and rotating sleeve extends.

The main shaft is driven by any prime actuating meanssuch, for instance, as a belt and pulley, (not shoWn)-and the, spindle is rotated through the train of gears 1 2 3 4 from the main shaft. The bobbin-shaft is rotated through the train of gears 6 7 8, also from the main shaft. The spindle is connected through the medium of the bevel-gears 9 10 with the spindle-shaft, while the bevel-gears 11 12 connect the bobbin holding and rotating sleeve with the bobbin-shaft.

z is a collar adapted to surround the sleeve f and to rest upon the top of the bolster. .The said collar is provided with a radial snug or rib j, the inner end of which extends into the vertical slot is, formed in the sleeve f, so that as the sleeve is rotated the collar will be rotated with it. The snug is also adapted to engage the base of the bobbin, so as to rotate the latter in unison with the sleeve. The slot 70 permits of the collar being carried up and down on the sleeve and to be rotated by it, the bolster h operating to raise the collar and bobbin and the latter being lowered by their own gravity.

The full and dotted lines in Fig. 1 show how the bolster-rail and bolster may be reciprocated vertically to raise and lower the bobbin, while the supports for the spindle and spindle and bobbin driving means remain fixed, thus attaining all of the advantages set out at the beginning of this description. During the vertical movements of the single bolsterrail and bolster the latter serves to guide and steady the sleeve and spindle, thus dispensin g with special fixed bearings for the spindle.

llavin g thus explained the nature of the invention and described a Way of constructing and using the same, though Without attempting to set forth all of the forms in which it may be made or all of the modes of its use, it is declared that What is claimed is-- 1. The combination with the rotary spindle, of a sleeve surrounding the spindle and provided with a vertical slot, a gear fixed on said sleeve, and a gear to engage the sleeve-gear and drive the sleeve, the single bolster-rail and means for reciprocating it, the bolster fixed to the rail, the bobbin, and the collar resting on the bolster and having a rib adapted to engage the bobbin and the slot in the sleeve.

2. The combination with the rotary spindle d, of the sleeve f fitted to rotate thereon and having a slot 76, the single bolster-rail g having the bolster h secured thereto, said rail and bolster being adapted to be reciprocated vertically and steady the sleeve and spindle, the collar 1' resting on the bolster and having a radial rib j one end of which enters the slot 719 in the sleeve and the other end of which is adapted to engage the base of a bobbin, and means for rotating the spindle and sleeve.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses, this 12th day of May, A. D. 1897.

JOHN T. CUNNEEN. Witnesses:

ABBA N. LINCOLN, ARMEL L. AUDET. 

